Tuesday, September 26

Bisibelebath/ Sambar sadham requires lot of patience.. .Though I like this a lot, I feel lazy to do this often, as it needs chopping, roasting , grinding and lots of work.The only relief is you dont need to prepare any vegetable curry with this .. It goes well with raitha and chips. Last week when I saw bisibelehuli anna in Nanditha's blog, I wanted to make it and so here is what I made..

MethodPressure cook the dal with turmeric powder and asafetida and set aside. Soak the tamarind in water and squeeze the juice.In a cooker or big vessel, add 10 cups of water(1:5 ratio) . when it boils add the rice and the vegetables(from peas to green chillies). When the rice is ¾ th cooked. Add the dal and salt.mix properly and add the ground paste , tamarind juice, sambarpowder and ghee. Partly Cover and cook for a few minutes in reduced flame.Heat oil in another pan and add the seasonings one by one. Now add this to the rice. Garnish with coriander leaves. Serve hot with raita and papad/chips and ghee on top.This bisi bela bhath should be in a slightly semisolid consistency than the normal rice.

29 comments:

Your bisi bele bhaat looks delicious! I make this a lot at home. I usually make Bisi Bele bhaat powder ahead and store (maybe once in 2 months). Once u have the powder it is a breeze to make this. My grandma used to make the best BBB. I still use her recipe!I love that u blog everyday. I keep coming back to see whats cooking in your kitchen for that day :-)CheersLatha

Latha,I think it will be a better idea to make BBB powder but as iam lazy, I make this recipe once in 3 or 4 months only.. if i make the powder may be i can do this more often .. thanks.Yes Asha it sure is a long list of ingredients .. but tastes heavenly.Thanks spicelover and krithika.

Prema, this is my favourite rice, but unfortunatly vinodh doesnt like this so much so i make them rarely...check out my version of bisibelabath herehttp://mysamayal.blogspot.com/2006/05/bisibelabathsambar-rice.html..Thanks for sharing.

I one day felt like having bisibelabath and browsed through the web. Saw your recipe and tried it and it came out very well. I have been cooking for the past one year. I think this is the best I have done so far. Thanks a ton. I really feel I should make this for my parents. Am sure my mom will be amazed to taste it. Thanks a lot once again.

Truly mouth watering receipe.. i simply loved the way u described this entire time consuming and a tedious process in simple steps.Yet difficult but neverth the less a yummy dish. i was generally browsing thru the site and to my surprise my eyes caught hold on your receipe and was reminded that i had totally forgotten BBB.Its been ages that my kitchen had thought abt it.

actually i tried ur bisi bele recipe...couple of months back and it came out extremely fantastic...love you loads...u have such a wonderful blog...so lucky your hubby and kid...lovely cook they got..am ur gr8 fan...am addicted to your blog

Hi prema, I tried ur bisibelabath receipe .It came out very well.I saw other receipes also but urs was impressive.I added 2 tbsp rice and fried the ingredients in 1 tsp ghee and it gave a very different aroma.At the end i fried and add onion(sambhar onion) and it was too gud. Felt i could share with u.Plz view my blog http://anushivas17.blogspot.com/